Ceramics 2: Final exam essay outline and vocabulary review

Ceramics 2 Exam:  Inspired Piece Essay Outline

 

Your essay must include answers to all of the questions listed below in sentence form and offer additional important information. Make it interesting to read! It must be typed. 

You must also pass in pictures of the original pieces.  Please staple pictures to your essay.

 

I.              Introduction:  Briefly introduce your project. 

Name the 2 pieces that you were inspired by and include artist’s name, materials used and the year it was made.

What made you choose these pieces?

 

II.            Explain your project

What did you make? How does it relate to the original artwork you found? Explain in detail. Is it very similar or did you do a lot to make it different? (Be specific. Write about specific points)

Explain the form of the object?  Use vocabulary (geometric/organic, symmetrical/asymmetrical, etc…)

What size is it?  What color/s is it?  Does it have texture?   Does it have a pattern or decoration? Explain.

 

III.            The process

Explain how you made the piece. Use the correct vocabulary and describe in detail the building, finishing and decorating processes you used.

 

IV.           Conclusion: critique

How did it turn out? 

What are you most proud of?

What could be improved?

What would you have done differently? 

If you had anything break/crack explain what you think happened and what you could’ve had done to avoid that problem.

Overall, how do you think you improved over the trimester?

Vocabulary to use

• Line
• Shape
• Form
• Space
• Rhythm
• Balance
• Value
• Contrast
• Texture
• Color
• Pattern/Repetition
• Emphasis
• Movement
• Proportion

 

 

 

 

§Proportion

 

 

Advanced Ceramics Projects

Advanced Studio Ceramics students are assigned the following projects which they can do in any order.
- Teapot and cup set
- Head/portrait
-Wheelwork
- Choice

Here is some inspiration and resources for work

Teapots- you can make it look like something recognizable or it could be abstract...it could be a person, a character, a building, natural forms or geometric shapes. However, it must have a lid that fits and stays on, a spout and handle that function and a cup that matches.

For the Head/Portrait

more inspiration for Art 2 Mixed Media portraits

Art 2 Mixed Media portraits

Here's some inspiration for the Mixed Media Portrait project...

Ways to get your creativity going

I found this great list of different ways to go about thinking about solving a creative problem....like art 2's new portrait project or Ceramics 1's Food Specific Project.  Check it out and notice that the first steps are all about writing words associated with it down....just like I always tell you ;)

Art 2: Portraiture

Art 2 is working on Portrait Drawing.  Here are some tutorials on individual features and general facial proportions. Use them to help you with your homework which is to "draw one mouth, one nose and one eye from direct observation" Due Thursday 10/16

Drawing pencils

Art 2 is working on drawing skills in preparation for a new still life pastel... here's some info about the types of pencils from about.com


"Simply, the H means hard and B means black. H pencils, because they are hard, leave less graphite on the paper, so are lighter. B pencils are softer, so leave more graphite on the paper, and so are darker. F means Fine Point, and it is quite a hard pencil - easy to keep sharp, but generally a bit too hard for general drawing. The more Hs, the harder it is (so a 4 H is harder than a 2H) - HB is kind of in the middle, though for drawing, its still reasonably hard - and the more Bs it has, the softer it is - so the 7B is the softest. HB is equivalent to the standard American Number 2 pencil, B is Number 1."